Theory of subharmonic synchronization of nonlinear oscillators

Author

Daryoush, A.S. ; Berceli, T. ; Saedi, R. ; Herczfeld, P.R. ; Rosen, A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Drexel Univ., Philadelphia, PA, USA

fYear

1989

fDate

13-15 June 1989

Firstpage

735

Abstract

General expressions for the theoretical prediction of the subharmonic injection-locking range of oscillators with a nonlinear input-output relationship are presented. This analysis is extended to describe oscillators realized using real nonlinear input voltage and output current relationships. In particular, analytical results for an oscillator represented by a fifth-order polynomial describing a nonlinear current-voltage relationship for subharmonic factors of 2, 3, and 4 are given. Experiments relating the subharmonic locking range of a field-effect transistor oscillator at 18 GHz to the injected signal level are reported.<>

Keywords

microwave oscillators; nonlinear network analysis; oscillators; solid-state microwave circuits; synchronisation; 18 GHz; SHF; field-effect transistor oscillator; fifth-order polynomial; microwave circuits; nonlinear current-voltage relationship; nonlinear input-output relationship; nonlinear oscillators; subharmonic injection-locking range; subharmonic synchronization; FETs; Frequency synchronization; Injection-locked oscillators; Local oscillators; Microwave devices; Microwave oscillators; Microwave theory and techniques; Millimeter wave communication; Millimeter wave technology; Phased arrays;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Symposium Digest, 1989., IEEE MTT-S International

Conference_Location

Long Beach, CA, USA

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSYM.1989.38829

Filename

38829